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Names: Coll, Steve, author.
Title: The Achilles trap : Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq / Steve Coll.
Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023022034 (print) | LCCN 2023022035 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525562269 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525562276 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Iraq War, 2003–2011. | Hussein, Saddam, 1937–2006. | United States. Central Intelligence Agency. | United States—Politics and government—2001–2009. | Iraq—Politics and government—2003– | United States—Foreign relations—Iraq. | Iraq—Foreign relations—United States.
Classification: LCC DS79.76 .C654 2024 (print) | LCC DS79.76 (ebook) | DDC 956.7044/3—dc23/eng/20231117
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023022034
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023022035
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